{"quotes":[{"text":"It's weird how much people change...It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a 'young adult', and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","inspirational","lauren-oliver","life","people","teenage","young","youth"],"id":8363,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","books","dead","death","dying","samantha-kingston"],"id":68844,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"And it's the funniest thing: as soon as I see it, the whistling in my ears stops and the feeling of terror drains away, and I realize this whole time I haven't been falling at all. I've been floating.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","inspirational","lauren-oliver"],"id":69509,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","young-adult"],"id":95578,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"I keep quiet and look out the window. The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun hast just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. The shadows are as sharp and pointed as needles. I watch three black crows take off simultaneausly from a telephone wire and wish I could take off too, move up, up, up, and watch the ground drop away from me the way it does when you're on an airplane, folding and compressing into itself like an origami figure, until everything is flat and brightly colored - until the world is like a drawing of itself.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","escaping","flying","lauren-oliver","thoughts"],"id":169122,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","young-adult-fiction"],"id":170269,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost. Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","young-adult-fiction"],"id":182592,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","individuality","innocent-question","voice"],"id":187748,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","lauren-oliver","past","wish","wishing"],"id":194922,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"It's too late,' she says.And I say 'It's never too late.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["before-i-fall","motivation"],"id":197040,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}